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L. M DEVORE. SHEET METAL CORNER IRON.

No. 564,273. Patented July 21, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI M. DEVORE, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO M. H. IVILCOXON, OF SAME PLACE.

SHEET-METAL CORNER-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,273, dated July 21, 1896.

Application filed October 10, 1895. Serial No. 565,299. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI M. DEVORE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Corner-Pieoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a certain new and improved sheet-metal corner-piece, the object of the invention being to produce a strong and cheap corner-piece for boxes, brackets, and the like by forming the same from a narrow strip of metal, the economy consisting in the saving of Waste of material by the use of a narrow strip and the strength being due to the peculiar formation of the bracket.

The drawings presented herewith illustrate the invention by means of four figures, of WhlGl1- Figure l is a plan of a flat strip of metal. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same after one bend has been made, and Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively outside and inside perspectives of the same after the second bend has been made and the corner-piece formed.

Looking at the drawings it Will be seen that g the first operation consists in bending the strip of metal A over in the dotted lines a on until it rests fiat upon itself, as seen in Fig. 2. The second operation consists in bending the metal after it is placed in the form seen in Fig. 2 in the dotted lines a a a a these two bends being continued only far enough to bring the bent portions at right angles to the remainder. The corner-piece is noW completed by the punching of suitable holes a if the same are described.

LEVI M. DEVORE. WVitnesses:

CHAS. O. SHERVEY, A. I. H. EBBESEN. 

